Jennifer grace

Principal • Joined Colorado Ballet in 2020

Hometown: Bozeman, Montana

Jennifer Grace began dancing at The Dance Center in Bozeman, Montana at the age of 7. At 13, Miss Grace moved to Moscow, Russia to continue her training at The Bolshoi Ballet Academy. After finishing her schooling at Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy in Southern California, Jennifer was hired by Tulsa Ballet’s Second Company in 2013 and was promoted to Corps de Ballet in November of that same year following her performance as Tatiana in Christoper Wheeldon’s “MidSummer Nights’s Dream”. By 2017, she was a Soloist with the company and had performed many principal and soloist roles. In 2020 Jennifer joined Colorado Ballet and was promoted to Principal with the company in 2021 following her primer as the title character in “Giselle”. She has had the opportunity to perform with Vail Dance Festival and Yellowstone International Arts Festival's "Stars on the Yellowstone" as well as performed works by choreographers such as Christopher Wheeldon, Derek Deane, Ben Stevenson, William Forsythe, Nacho Duato, Wayne McGregor and Alejandro Cerrudo. Jennifer was Pointe Magazine's August/September 2018 Cover Star.

Jennifer's selected roles and ballets include Giselle in Giselle, Juliet in Derek Deane's Romeo and Juliet, Marguerite in Val Caniparoli’s Lady of the Camellias, Odette/Odile in Swan Lake, Swanhilda in Coppelia, Daisy in Jorden Morris’ sThe Great Gatsby, Cinderella and Fairy Godmother in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella, Music in Yoshihisa Arai’s S. Rachmaninoff, Lucy in Michael Pink's Dracula, Aurora and Lilac Fairy in The Sleeping Beauty, Hermia and Titania in Wheeldon’s A Midsummer Nights Dream, Lead in George Balanchine’s Rubies, Lead in Arai’s Bolero, Dorothy, Glinda and, Diamond Queen in Liang’s Dorothy and the Prince of Oz, The Man I Love Pas and Rhapsody in Blue Soloist in Derek Deane’s Strictly Gershwin, Marianela in McGregor’s Infra, Flora in Ben Stevenson’s Dracula, Solo Woman in Duato’s Rassemblement, Rooster Girl in Sr. Christopher Bruce’s Rooster, Myrtha in Angelini’s Giselle, Facinatin’ Rhythm solo and The Man I Love Pas in George Balanchine’s Who Cares?, Dark Angel and Waltz Girl in George Balanchine’s Serenade, Mercedes and Queen of the Dryads in Holmes’ Don Quixote, Purse Lady in Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free, Partisan Woman in Kurt Jooss’s The Green Table, Paul Taylor’s Company B, David Dawson’s Million Kisses to my Skin, Alejandro Cerrudo’s Second To Last and Extremely Close, Alexander Ekman’s Cacti, and Going for Baroque and Prawn Watching by Val Caniparoli. Jennifer has also been part of original works by choreographers such as Adam Hougland, Edwaard Liang, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Hellen Pickett, Young Soon-Hue, Nicolo Fonte, Ma Cong, Jorma Elo, Luciano Cannito, and Dwight Rhoden.